Due to exhibition renovations, the Bible Museum will be closed from 22 September to 10 October 2025.
(Post) Colonial Bible Translations
Exhibition Opening on 10 October
From 10 October, the Bible Museum will be showing the exhibition ‘Global Bible: Legacies of (Post-)Colonial Bible Translations in the Arctic, Australia/Oceania and West Africa’. It has been developed in cooperation with ‘Global Bible (GloBil)’, an international project led by PD Dr Felicity Jensz from the Centre for Religion and Modernity at the University of Münster and Prof Hilary Carey from the University of Bristol.
Since 2023, the research team has been conducting a critical examination of British and German contributions to the creation of a ‘global Bible.’ In particular, three case study regions where German and British colonialism once prevailed were examined: the Arctic, Australia/Oceania, and West Africa. Until 1 March, visitors can see how the Bible, based on its original Hebrew and Greek sources, has been disseminated through translations across various historical eras and imperial contexts into the 21st century.
Making the Bible Speak
The commemorative publication ‘Die Bibel zum Sprechen bringen’ (Bringing the Bible to Life) has just been released, honouring Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf, Director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) and the Bible Museum at the University of Münster, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. In over 40 articles, internationally renowned scholars shed light on the current state of research in the field of reconstructing the ‘original text’ of the Greek New Testament.